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Book Cover for: Why Dance Matters, Mindy Aloff

Why Dance Matters

Mindy Aloff
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Why Dance Matters by Mindy Aloff—a collection of personal essays by a wonderful writer and dancer https://t.co/W8VgeXCIhH

Hardcover, 2023

$26.00Member price:$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Animal Life, Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir

Animal Life

Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
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Fresh ink: I reviewed Animal Life by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, tr Brian Fitzgibbon, for @LiberReview https://t.co/cPq3XY0kxv @groveatlantic

Paperback, 2022

$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Litany for the Long Moment, Mary-Kim Arnold

Litany for the Long Moment

Mary-Kim Arnold
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@writesloud Have you seen Mary-Kim Arnold's Litany for the Long Moment? It's amazing. @mkarnold

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Book Cover for: Patterns of Orbit: Stories, Clark Chloe N

Patterns of Orbit: Stories

Clark Chloe N
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“What would it be like to step into the waters of somewhere beyond the stars?” Get a taste of Patterns of Orbit: Stories by Chloe N. Clark, recently published by @BaobabPress and reviewed this week by @courtludwick at Necessary Fiction. @necessaryfic https://t.co/ij2qxkSsc9 https://t.co/iyNtRWqwAQ

Paperback, 2023

$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made on, Kai-Cheung Dung

A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made on

Kai-Cheung Dung
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ICYMI: A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On, reviewed by @MelissaReddish for @NecessaryFic. "Like descending into a beautiful fever dream of Hong Kong in the late ‘90s." https://t.co/1hI4USCOua https://t.co/232amLG6UX

Paperback, 2022

$28.00Member price:$28.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Book Cover for: All the Tiny Beauties, Jenn Scott

All the Tiny Beauties

Jenn Scott
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ICYMI: "These beauties might be tiny, but they add up to one big, beautiful book." From Mary Lannon's review of Jenn Scott's ALL THE TINY BEAUTIES (@acrebooks), new this week at Necessary Fiction. @NecessaryFic @LannonMf https://t.co/ajBajPypVo https://t.co/mREfv6NxMK

Paperback, 2022

$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Necessary Fictions: Philippine Literature and the Nation, 1946-1980, Caroline S. Hau

Necessary Fictions: Philippine Literature and the Nation, 1946-1980

Caroline S. Hau
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ICYMI: "Brandt’s prose is marvelous, studded with precise and lyrical observations." From Rosalia Scalia's review of HOPE FOR THE WORST by Kate Brandt published earlier this week at Necessary Fiction. Read: https://t.co/ZpGPkBGwFe @KBrandtwriter @NecessaryFic @VineLeavesPress https://t.co/bM7MqAuuDo

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Book Cover for: Hotel London: How Victorian Commercial Hospitality Shaped a Nation and Its Stories, Barbara Black

Hotel London: How Victorian Commercial Hospitality Shaped a Nation and Its Stories

Barbara Black
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Fresh ink: I reviewed Barbara Black’s HOTEL LONDON for The Victorian Web. @VictorianWeb https://t.co/SBGv87AblK

Paperback, 2021

$34.95Member price:$34.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Book Cover for: This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm, Ted Genoways

This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm

Ted Genoways
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@ShannonNajma @WSJ I'm a fan of https://t.co/hH2QxbUaff and, on the vicissitudes of soybean farming, Ted Genoway's This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm.

Paperback, 2018

$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy, Barbara Ehrenreich

Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy

Barbara Ehrenreich
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Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich, who is worth reading on any subject — so glad & gratified to learn that she turned her attention to this one https://t.co/2UK0Wh13nJ

Paperback, 2007

$23.00Member price:$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book